Carrie is in New York working for a legal aid firm. Quinn is in veterans' rehab for the significant damage done to him in season 5. Within the CIA much is the same – although the new President Elect appears that she will very much use her new position to change that.
It has been many seasons since the foundation of the show (Brody) has gone, and in some ways the last few seasons have been successful in spinning off into wider threads of terrorism and threat. This season continues that, and also continues the trend of the show being very topic, as it draws in right wing pundits, fake news, and even rips a few phrases from the headlines. The plot this season starts out with a terrorist attack, but for some reason it makes it clear to us from the instant it happens that it is clearly not the fault of the person accused of doing it. This was an odd choice, because that plus something else plus too many hours online, all told me that it was a setup probably by one of those shady corners of the Intelligence community. And so it turns out to be as it plays out.
It does so in a slow placed way for the most part; the first few episodes in particular did not have a lot of energy to them, while specific threads throughout were the same. I guess if you are still with the show after six seasons, then this will not shake you off, but it did seem to rob urgency from a lot of the season. The topical references were nice, but didn't always seem to come together as they should, and a few times seemed in there for the sake of it. What bothered me a bit more was how so much seemed to fit together; mostly it is justified in the narrative, but between Quinn and Carrie, they do seem to manage to be in the right place at the right time an awful lot of the time. Speaking of Quinn, I though Friend did a great job with his performance, but the season struggled with him as a character.
Overall it is a solid season, even if it does seem like a show constantly looking for a reason to exist. Will be interesting to see if they can add some more spark into the show for the next season, because too often that is what this one lacked. There is plenty to like though, and those watching this long will still enjoy it, but it is not as tight, cohesive, or compelling as it needed to be.
It has been many seasons since the foundation of the show (Brody) has gone, and in some ways the last few seasons have been successful in spinning off into wider threads of terrorism and threat. This season continues that, and also continues the trend of the show being very topic, as it draws in right wing pundits, fake news, and even rips a few phrases from the headlines. The plot this season starts out with a terrorist attack, but for some reason it makes it clear to us from the instant it happens that it is clearly not the fault of the person accused of doing it. This was an odd choice, because that plus something else plus too many hours online, all told me that it was a setup probably by one of those shady corners of the Intelligence community. And so it turns out to be as it plays out.
It does so in a slow placed way for the most part; the first few episodes in particular did not have a lot of energy to them, while specific threads throughout were the same. I guess if you are still with the show after six seasons, then this will not shake you off, but it did seem to rob urgency from a lot of the season. The topical references were nice, but didn't always seem to come together as they should, and a few times seemed in there for the sake of it. What bothered me a bit more was how so much seemed to fit together; mostly it is justified in the narrative, but between Quinn and Carrie, they do seem to manage to be in the right place at the right time an awful lot of the time. Speaking of Quinn, I though Friend did a great job with his performance, but the season struggled with him as a character.
Overall it is a solid season, even if it does seem like a show constantly looking for a reason to exist. Will be interesting to see if they can add some more spark into the show for the next season, because too often that is what this one lacked. There is plenty to like though, and those watching this long will still enjoy it, but it is not as tight, cohesive, or compelling as it needed to be.